Mysteries

IT’s the curious details of a murder case that transfix true crime obsessives. Some have elements that are particularly violent, bloody, gruesome, and unsettling. Worse, some slaying remain unsolved, meaning that the perpetrator continued to walk among us after the…

LOVE does many things to people. For some, it can cause butterflies --but for others, it can enhance a twisted desire to torture and kill. When a serial killer finds a perfect love match, all bets are off. Throughout the…

FOR Jerome Brudos, what started as a youthful obsession with women’s shoes morphed into a depraved life of murder. Brudos was only a young boy when he discovered a high heeled shoe at a local junkyard. Fascinated, Brudos took the…

A ‘SEX manual’ which was banned for nearly 250 years because of its racy advice and references to bestiality has been unearthed. The illustrated Georgian book, published in 1720, was banned until the 1960s. Titled ‘Aristotle’s Masterpiece Completed In Two…

WARNING! Graphic content -- not suitable for younger readers! THE state of Arizona, which has the infamous reputation of removing the highest percentage of children in the U.S. from their homes and families through Child Protective Services, has now also…

WHEN Walter Magnuson arrived at San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House as its new general manager in 2015, he asked the tour guides at the famed, peculiar mansion to show him everything. “I would see doors that were locked, I would…

‘After that day, I never heard a single voice again. I do not like to imagine what was waiting downstairs for me that night.’ TURN off the lights and prepare to be scared by these 7 terrifying and unsettling true…

MANY people assume that human sacrifice has long gone extinct. However, in our wide world, many cultures and communities do still deal with this shocking and most inhuman of practices. In particular, people will take the lives of other human…

A “WATCHER” who sends chilling letters to your home days after you move in; mysterious texts from someone who seems to be able to see your every move; a serial killer who draws his victims before killing them. These real-life…

CULTS are known for secrecy, rituals, and commitment to a cause above all. Most of the time, the cause seems misguided to most of the outside world. The individuals who participate in these cults are often regular people, with no…

IT was a terrifying phenomenon that continues to cast a shadow over certain parts of Europe even today. The great age of witch trials, which ran between 1550 and 1700, fascinates and repels in equal measure. Over the course of…

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (CBS New York) -- At a time when participation in traditional religions is declining among Americans, the practice of witchcraft is said to be on the rise. CBS2’s Ali Bauman went inside the secret world of modern-day…

THIS is a “what if” story. But it’s also based on decades of experience analyzing propaganda and cover stories. It’s based on the knowledge that military and intelligence operatives are trained to lie, and they like to lie, and they…

MOUNTING concerns about the possibility of a nuclear war, along with US President Donald Trump’s “unpredictability” have pushed the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” to two minutes before midnight, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists said Thursday. The clock -- which serves as…

ZORA Neale Hurston was a fascinating woman. In the late 1920s and through the 1930s, she traveled throughout the Caribbean studying various aspects of their culture and society. Part of that study included the study of voodoo and of zombies.…